dreaming track

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dreaming track (plural dreaming tracks)

  1. (Australian Aboriginal mythology) A path across the land (or sometimes the sky) marking the route followed by an Aboriginal ancestor made during the Dreaming; often recorded in traditional songs, stories, dance and painting. [from 20th c.]
    • 2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo 2012, p. 124:
      The spiritual Dreaming track of the ceremony in which they were all involved, moved along the most isolated back roads, across the landscape, through almost every desert in the continent.

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